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| Steyn: Can Obama hold Teddy's seat? |
| 2010-01-17 |
| As usual for Steyn - evisceration with style...HT to IOTW |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #3 Obama is a shooting star Give him points for understanding a) the moment, and b) Americans' weird psychology of race. Re. the moment, all he had to do was not be Bush and not be Hillary to get on the short list. To win, he reprised the formula he hit upon when he conned Harvard Law students into giving him a position he did nothing to earn, and subsequently disgraced by not even writing a single law review article. That formula was to OTOH "bargain", in Shelby Steele's formulation, with nervous/guilty white Americans desperate to show blacks they're not racist, and OTOH to show blacks enough "authentic" blackness in the form of urban radical politics symbolism and other dog whistles so as to make them think he's one of their own. Never did other factors-- like, say, a record of leadership, legislative accomplishments, mastery of even one complex national political issue-- enter into the message of Obama. It was and remains all about his heritage, his absent dad, his Most Amazing Lifestory. What a complete BS artist. Someday a movie will be made about this. "Face in the Crowd, Pt II" perhaps. |
| Posted by: lex 2010-01-17 18:54 |
| #2 Maybe the Senate should have Coakley (if she wins) sit in a little chair in front of a permanently empty "Teddy's Seat". You know - like in the Lord of the Rings. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2010-01-17 15:20 |
| #1 Obama is a shooting star, that for sure. A wise friend once told me to be cautious around shooting stars. Because shooting stars are actually burning up and burning in. Obama is proving his advice to be acccurate. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2010-01-17 11:23 |